International Dragonfly Fund - Report Journal of the International Dragonfly Fund ISSN 1435-3393
Content Villanueva, Reagan Joseph T. The type repository of Drepanosticta sugbo spec. nov. and Mortonagrion astamii spec. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera)
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Seehausen, Malte New to the fauna of Hong Kong: Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853 (Odonata: Calopterygidae)
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Volume 65 2014
The International Dragonfly Fund (IDF) is a scientific society founded in 1996 for the improvement of odonatological knowledge and the protection of species. Internet: http://www.dragonflyfund.org/ This series intends to publish studies promoted by IDF and to facilitate cost-efficient and rapid dissemination of odonatological data.
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Date of publication: 01.01.2014 Publisher: International Dragonfly Fund e.V., Schulstr. 7B, 54314 Zerf, Germany. E-mail:
[email protected] Responsible editor: Martin Schorr
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New to the fauna of Hong Kong: Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853 (Odonata: Calopterygidae) Malte Seehausen Museum Wiesbaden, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2, 65183 Wiesbaden, Germany Email:
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Abstract Matrona basilaris was collected between 1878 and 1907 in Hong Kong. The specimens had been deposited in the Übersee-Museum Bremen (Germany). Introduction Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853 is a common species occurring along forest streams in north Vietnam and China, with records from Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Guandong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan (Dow 2009). So far no record was known from Hong Kong, but Wilson (2004) and Tam et al. (2011) mentioned M. basilaris as a potential species for this region.
Fig. 1: Male Matrona basilaris from Hong Kong preserved at the Übersee-Museum Bremen (Germany). Picture: M. Haase, ©Übersee-Museum Bremen
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Matrona basilaris new to Hong Kong
Results During determination work on Southeast Asian Odonata preserved in the ÜberseeMuseum Bremen (Germany) two male (one teneral, one nearly mature) and most likely two female Matrona basilaris labelled with “Hong Kong” could be found (Fig. 1 & 2). The determination was confirmed by Matti Hämäläinen and Haomiao Zhang (pers. comm.) who recently described the superficially resembling Matrona annina Zhang & Hämäläinen, 2012 from Guangdong (Zhang & Hämäläinen 2012). The condition of the specimens is good, considering their visible old age; all of them possess the complete abdomen and all wings, only the older male lacks its head.
Fig. 2: Original label of these specimens (Hongkong, Lauts). Picture: M. Seehausen.
The collector of these specimens was labelled as “Lauts”. After a detailed research, it could be discovered, that the full name is Johann Theodor Lauts (1855-1944). He went from Bremen (Germany) to Hong Kong as employee for the C. Melchers GmbH & Co. KG trading company in 1878. Afterwards he worked as established merchant in Hong Kong with sharing for example on Lauts, Wegener & Co. In 1907 he went back to Bremen (Schauinsland 1999). Therefore it can be assumed that these specimens were collected within a period of 29 years. An imprecise collection date is often the case in old collections. But, with the information obtained concerning J. T. Lauts there is no need to mistrust the collection locality and it is very likely that good habitat conditions for M. basilaris could be found in Hong Kong at that time. A complete catalogue of the Odonata from Asia preserved in the Übersee-Museum Bremen is in preparation and will be published later.
Acknowledgment I would like to thank Volker Lohrmann, Mathias Haase and the Übersee-Museum for the possibility to work on this collection and to provide the picture of the preserved M. basilaris, Matti Hämäläinen and Haomiao Zhang for their help to identify the species and Keith Wilson for his critical view on this paper.
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